Atwater Village

This one was shot last year, and printed just a couple of months ago in my kitchen darkroom.  I shot it with a Mamiya C-22, and it's printed on Ilford fiber base multi-grade paper.  The location is a small industrial area at the edge of the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles.  It's close enough to where I live, that I was able to walk there.

Drive In Theater, Arizona

This one was photographed in northern Arizona, along old route 66.  I can remember waiting for the train to leave, but I was on my way home from a trip, and had to get back to work, so after an hour I had to give up.  Printed on Ilford resin coated multi-grade paper, photographed with a Mamiya C22.

Boquillas, Mexico

This is one of the few older prints I have that I can actually date.  The picture was taken with a Mimiyaflex in 1980 in Boquillas, Mexico.  Boquillas is across the Rio Grande River from Big Bend National Park in Texas.  I took a row boat across to Mexico, walked about a mile or so to the town.  Printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

Warehouse Scale

I found this scale in an abandoned warehouse in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California.  Can't remember the exact location.  Shot with a Mamaiya C22 in very low light, a fairly thin negative, printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

Roy's

The rather large grain comes from high desert heat.  Shot in Amboy, California on 35 mm film.  I used either a Nikkormat  or a Kodak Retina C3.  Printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

Oro Grande, California

This one was shot with the Mamiya C22 and printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

Palm Tree, LACMA

This one used a rather easy technique.  I have a couple of very old, out of date, envelopes of Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.  I made a very quick exposure, using the same negative on all four prints, and then painted the developer on the print.  The negative was exposed with a Holga camera.  This palm tree is outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Broad Building.  Photographed 2014.

Balcony

This print of a balcony in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was made from a 35mm negative, shot with a Nikormat FTN.  Printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

Wheel Barrow

This one was printed from a water damaged negative.  Shot with a Mamaiyaflex 120 camera, printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.  Location, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hollywood

This one's from the same wall as the last post.  Taken with a Mamiya C 22 camera, printed on Ilford multi-grade fiber base paper.  Location, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Hollywood

This was shot with a Mamiya C 22, 120 camera.  Printed on Ilford multi-grade fiber base paper.  It's a mixture of graffiti, stencils, and paper pasted on plywood on an abandoned building in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Jacaranda

This one wasn't made with a camera.  I put some jacaranda blossoms in a glass negative carrier and made a print.  Printed on Ilford multi-grade resin coated paper.

The Santa Monica Pier

This one was shot with a Holga, a cheap, Chinese made plastic camera with a plastic lens.  Even though it's thought of as a toy camera, it takes a medium format 120 film.  The film advance doesn't rely on a calibrated advance, but one of those old fashioned ruby windows on the camera back that shows frame numbers on the film's paper backing.  This print is actually two frames that mashed together when the film wasn't advanced quite enough to get a clean frame edge.  Printed on Ilford fiber base multi-grade paper.  Location, the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California.

Wupatki

                                                                                             

This one is from Wupatki National Monument in northern Arizona.  Shot on 35mm film.  Most likely with a Nikon ftn, though perhaps, the Kodak Retina III c, a rangefinder from the 1950s that still works and delivers an excellent negative.  Printed on resin coated Ilford multi-grade papaer.

Number 10

I can't remember the exact location of this storage tank, but I do know it was in the San Joaquin Valley in California.  Camera: Mamiya C22.  Paper: Ilford multi-grade, resin coated.